Hi, I'm 36 weeks today and still really unsure about elcs or vbac. I'm booked in 3 weeks for elcs but have a feeling for some reason the baby will be earlier and I can't decide whether to try natural if that happens.
Last time I was in labour for 14 hours. I had my 1st contraction at 4pm and my second contraction 1 min 20 secs later and that was how my labour went. Baby was back to back and I literally felt like my back was shattering into a million pieces the whole time. It was exhausting because my contractions were so close for so many hours and at 6am the next day I was 10cm but baby's heart plummeted so it was emcs after all that (I'd refused all pain relief apart from gas and air as was determined I wanted natural). They said that due to being b2b he just wasn't in the right position to come down easily.
If i dilated but didn't push, should labour be a little faster next time or is it the actual pushing bit that makes it faster second time round?